HOW TO OPEN A BOOK

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 18, 1901

HOW TO OPEN A BOOK.

The Funk and Wagnalls Company give the following instruction, as to how to open a new book: “In order to open a new book so that its back will not be broken, the following instructions will be of value: The book should be held with its back on a smooth table, then the front board cover should be let down, the leaves being held in one hand. Next, the other board cover should be let down. Following this operation, a few leaves should be opened at the back, then a few at the front, and so on, alternately opening back and front, gently pressing open the sections till the center of the volume is reached. The best results will be obtained if this is done two or three times.

“If the book is violently or carelessly opened in any place, the back will very likely be broken.”